Chinese hoax has US military rushing to increase military presence in the arctic.

[PaladinSolo]

I mean its cold in the Northeast today and just for today so its clearly just a hoax 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/arctic-climate-change-military-russia-china/?fbclid=IwAR0FcMJuRlYPWm0i7yf54VHy1WD7KTVqhWR4HNcRjV__BC6Wlajgpcq5QLA&utm_term=.f3e13a243a5d

 

Russia has more than 40 icebreakers — the U.S. military has two working ones — and stationed more troops in the region. China, meanwhile, is building its third polar icebreaker and staked a claim this year as a “near-Arctic” state, further injecting itself into policy debates.

"We're obviously watching both the Russians and the Chinese quite closely," said Vice Adm. Linda L. Fagan, who oversees Coast Guard operations in the Arctic and Pacific. "Russia, on their side of the Arctic in sort of the Northern Sea Route, is investing heavily in commercial infrastructure and in military infrastructure."

 

Coast Guard Capt. Gregory Tlapa, who commands the lone U.S. military icebreaker traveling to the Arctic each year, said waterways like the frosty Bering Strait are not yet busy with ships, especially when compared with other maritime corridors. Waters are warming, he said, but “somewhat warmer still means mostly frozen.”

But the lack of U.S. military vessels and infrastructure in the Arctic could be problematic, said Tlapa, speaking on the red-hulled USCGC Healy while it refueled in Dutch Harbor in August. Congress recently approved initial funding for six new polar icebreakers, but they are probably still years away from deploying.

 

 

The elevated profile of Arctic operations at the center has raised the possibility that the Army will replace a tracked personnel carrier known as the small-unit sustainment vehicle, or SUSV. The vehicle, first fielded in the 1980s, rides high on snow and sometimes tows a squad of soldiers on skis behind it, said Jared Sapp, a science adviser to U.S. Army Alaska.

At sea, the Navy has operated submarines in the Arctic since the 1940s and carries out a large training every year with them known as ICEX north of Alaska.

In April, Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the recent decrease in polar ice has prompted the Navy to begin preparing a new Arctic strategy just four years after the last one was released. 

The plan will incorporate “blue-water Arctic operations,” in which ships without icebreaking capability sail in areas that were once more frozen, he said.

Asked by reporters after the hearing what triggered the new review, Spencer was blunt. 

“The damn thing melted,” he said.

[RedSoxFan9]

 

 

[PaladinSolo]

A few hundred nukes outta do the trick, but its a sad reality where they're moving on from how can we stop this to, what can we do to make it not so bad?

[SuperSpreader]

Will plants grow with half a sun? lol

[Jason]

10 hours ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

 

 

[SuperSpreader]

Isn't there a movie where this happens? Humans blocked out the sun a long time ago and now...

 

Edit: animatrix

[PaladinSolo]

 

 

[mclumber1]

7 hours ago, 2user1cup said:

Isn't there a movie where this happens? Humans blocked out the sun a long time ago and now...

 

Edit: animatrix

Also Highlander 2. But that was because the ozone layer was completely destroyed.

[skillzdadirecta]

16 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

Also Highlander 2. But that was because the ozone layer was completely destroyed.

I'm impressed that you remember anything about Highlander 2

I think there's a movie where Vampires block the sun out too.

[silentbob]

Can’t believe we haven’t gone this route yet